A mum-of-two is calling for more action to tackle crime on her estate after she was burgled - by two men who knocked on a neighbour's door and asked to borrow a hammer.

A mum-of-two is calling for more action to tackle crime on her estate after she was burgled - by two men who knocked on a neighbour's door and asked to borrow a hammer.

She says the thieves were so complacent about being caught that they openly walked away from her Stockton home with her valuables loaded into two of her carrier bags.

Jayne Kellie, 39, of Ragworth, fears that people there have come to expect to be burgled and react to crime with a shrug of the shoulders.

Now she wants residents to get together and say "enough is enough".

Mrs Kellie, a single parent with two autistic sons, Joshua, aged six, and Ben, four, says she saw the two men believed to be responsible for the break-in earlier in the day walking through the estate with two garden spades.

When she returned home she found her video recorder, hi-fi, CDs and jewellery, including her late mother's wedding ring, had been stolen and the two spades were in her garden.

Neighbours told her that the two men had been seen climbing over fences and that they had asked one householder to lend them a hammer.

Police were given the names of the men and a team of officers took forensic evidence from Mrs Kellie's house.

Now she wants her friends and neighbours to take a stand against the burglars who make their lives a misery.

"They were just blatantly walking around the estate looking for places to burgle and yet nothing was done to stop them. We are being told burglaries are down abut they don't seem to be.

"My oldest son was very upset about the burglary it really got him down.

"Being autistic makes it worse - his video of Murray Walker's Magic Moments about Grand Prix racing was in the recorder when it was taken," she said.

Local beat officer Paul Lockwood said the crime situation on Ragworth had improved greatly.

He urged anyone who sees anything suspicious to contact the police immediately.

A Cleveland Police spokeswoman said: "We are waiting for the results of forensic tests and follow-up inquires. The names of those residents believe to be responsible have been passed on to us."